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Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn.

The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

having white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp. The fruit of several species and the species themselves, esp. L. Ægyptiaca, are called dishcloth gourds.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers. Gray.

e customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp, as in a nest.

Having the pericarp thick.

sum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.

The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.

Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.

Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.

Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.

Having five valves, as a pericarp.

Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. Gen. i. 11.

Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.

Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.

axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.

top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.

Having one valve; as, a univalve shell or pericarp.